Be forewarned: The writer of this blog is an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey. If this is your cup of tea, please enjoy your stay here. If not, please sod off

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. You'll get them next time. Plus during the next protest you can stage camel races with those roboticcamel jockeys and hold amass wedding for North Koreanscientologists.

Please make this happen, when is not important. There has been almost nothing but silence from the Muslim world which is leading many to conclude that most Muslims support terrorism, at least when Americans or Jews are being killed. We could not even get a large gathering of Muslims in the US to protest the atrocities carried out in the name of Islam.

You and Big Pharaoh may take some consolation from this: I always took very seriously what you two wrote about the political situation in Egypt. This episode, however, has impressed on me much more the government's oppressiveness.

On a cheerier note, there was Churchill's remark about the dictators, with all their panoply of power and might, secretly terrified that one little word of dissent might bring them tumbling down.